In line with my longtime assertions, LDP's draft Articles (1/8/05) propose self-defense military, human rights enjoyable and premier's Diet breakup, which will atone for the existing Constituion badly cooked up, to restart democracy in this country.
This is a victory of commonsense over pedantry, since the three existing articles, which were so cunningly twisted by our government as to be reactionary enough for it just before the GHQ's hasty and loose approval (6/3/1946) for it, have long been obscuring the rationale of this country so that with complicating stalemates ensued, LDP can no longer run this country without redefining such articles as clearly as mentioned first.
Yet, our fake Constitution is working even at this moment. In customarily abusing it, the self-defense forces are out in Iraq and in the Arabian Sea, when a general election is under way at home after the prime minister dissolved the lower house, where nobody can tear down my old ugly posters.
Who are responsible for such gigantic frauds? Nobody. From scratch, the deceivers were constitutionally exempted (Article 51). The historical truth was that with such a set of negative legacy, our old obscurantists narrowly managed to open up a new life for us.
An episode or two to tell you what went on then and there. In the constitutionalization Diet session, the most enigmatic figure (LLD) behind it all asked the minister (LLD) in charge of the historic process if democracy was replacing the then monarchism. The minister replied, "A bit tormenting question to answer though, our understanding is that in the past, our people's sovereignty was dormant, and now it is waking up to emerge, nothing changing really in essence."
The other is no less funny. This minister's predecessor (LLD) was so shocked by the disloyal nature of the Mac draft when he discussed it with the US side that this doctor became suddenly headachy and walked out the room, never coming back again. Then, a Cambridge-man advisor to the then foreign minister wrote to the other side a reconciliatory letter ("Jeep-way Letter"), whose carbon copy I once read at the advisor's cottage was saying, "The doctor was quite a socialist in his young days and still is a whole hearted liberal." or something like that. I laughed at it, but we were more or less like them at that time, you see.
After all, we may be seeing our own reality direct for the first time under such new articles enforced, while as there is nothing new under the sun, a Sunni leader reportedly remarked recently on the Iraqi constitution, "It was written by the powerful people, not by the people." (3/9/05)
Candlestick Stolen
Ah, king's naked. A, law's naked. Fool's naked.